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Summer Anime 2016 |OT| Makes Me Happy When Skies Are Grey

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Eumi

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Mito and Soma are a great combo, I'm glad they got another arc together. I'm suprised how quickly this shifted gears, I'd assumed we'd be going straight into these elections but imactually enjoying this shopping district stuff a lot more than I thought I would.

Happy to see first episode girl come back, even if she is just diet Megumi.
 

Narag

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Amanchu! 1

A little too anime muppetface but solid

edit: Also the ED is just cats doing cat things. Syrinx will be pleased.
 
ReWrite Ep 1:
So this is what 'Key-face' is! OK if they didn't have different hairstyles I'd struggle to differentiate a significant portion of the girls in this cast. Largely incomprehensible plot wise but showing promising signs of the good kind of stupidity so I'll keep the faith for at least a few more episodes

Taboo Tattoo Ep 1
I enjoyed this but to be honest it was also largely nonsense but hey keep it fun and I can deal

Scar-red Rider Xechs Ep 1
Uh-huh. Well this seems like the less fun nonsense show and if a teacher years younger than them has anything worth passing on what the hell have these idiots been doing all this time. Tedious brooder is tedious. Will go maybe one or two more.
Edit: I've just realised the only thing I liked about Broody McBrooderson was that his partner demon thing was nicely designed but now I realise it just recalls the demon form of the clothes from KlK

HxH Titty nonsense
Hahahahahaha but boring I had hoped that the 5 mins I watched of this would show signs of being as fun as Hundred was for a while but no it's just rubbish. If it shows the level of invention that brought us the infamous double grab from Hundred I might jump back in but I'll await reports from people with better patience than I.

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 3rei!!
OK the creep factor has been toned way down, the plot actually started at ep 1 please, please, please continue to keep the creep factor down. The parallel world conceit means Ilya's mum isn't in it though which is very disappointing, she was one of the few redeeming features of the last two seasons.

Regalia
OK the fights are excellent but is this where the discarded loli from Prisma wound up? I hope they don't go the yuri/loli route but given how much time they devoted to telling us that the MC was the older sibling I'm afraid. Ugh please stay on the right side of that line, I really like supportive sibling stories and hate when they add that ugliness in. That fight though, I lack the expertise to describe why but they felt far more physical than quite a few of the other shows I've watched. I'm starting to see why Nintendoman is so keen on 2D mecha'

I still plan to watch Planetarian and Orange while continuing with Berserk and Morose Monokean. I was disappointed by Fudanshi as I'd hoped they would have tried harder to find more jokes than 'But they'll think I'm gay', it's a 3 minute show so I can dip in and out to see if it gets any better.
 

striferser

Huge Nickleback Fan
Good write up on that Trigger panel Jarmel.

Kono bijutsu niwa 1
That was fun, a bit unnecessary fan service though (talking about usami pantsu, in the manga, there's no zoom in, only a glimpse of it). The character animation and lightning was nice. Another one of those SoL anime. Will continue to watch
 

phaze

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Berserk (1997) 8

That Tudor commander was a huge idiot. His self-aggrandizement in the face of his incompetency is practically comedic.

The entire rise of the band of hawk was possible only by Gryffith-chan never having to face an opponent with half a brain. Miura a hack.
I brought this one up before and itvwas scrapped from contention, but I wanted to check on why Moribito would NOT be good for a group watch:

Huge risk of a massive coma epidemy I would say.
Oh nice. Didn't he kinda stop doing much of anything after Dennou Coil's commercial failure?

I think there was lately one or two projects where he worked under a pseudonym ? Check sakugabooru.

The most important news is that Shinobu got voted as best Shaft girl

Disgusting.
 

Narag

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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable 15

Literally blind with rage. Amazing.

Bits with Rohan working out the creative process were great too.
 

e_i

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So, the Muv-Luv game is only a week away. And I'm going back and forth trying to decide whether plunking $33 on Nurse Love Addiction is worth it.
 

phaze

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???

Is it boring as hell or something?

Well my opinion is seemingly an outlier so take it with a grain of salt but like House of Five Leaves, I can't see it being very enthralling to the regular folk, it's a very mellow show for huge proportion of its time.
 

Cornbread78

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The most important news is that Shinobu got voted as best Shaft girl

Forgot to say how much crap this is...

Senjouhara is the only way to go...

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Shard

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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable Episode 15:

It is like mana from heaven after the mediocre tide that has been the past week.
 
Amanchu! 1

I'm reminded of Aria and how boring I thought it was when first watched it until it eventually grew on me. I expect the same out of this. Also muppet face is creepy.
 

Narag

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Huh must've misunderstood. I thought 91 Days released midday today which would be early ams on Japan.

Anyone with crunchy have the countdown yet?

Sometimes stuff goes up without the countdown for whatever reason. Should be up in about 44 minutes according to their press release.
 

Wanderer5

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Sound! Euphonium extra episode on crunchyroll.:eek: Nice to have a episode focusing on the folks that didn't make it to the competition.
 
Alderamin on the Sky 01

Wish they skip a bit more of first chapter because the first chapter is too god damn long for an anime.
Fine adaption overall, and i pretty like the OP.
 

Narag

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Berserk (2016) 2

Still not too hot of a show but you can see the occasional good element such as the presentation of the Golden Age flashbacks, the HIrasawa song, and little touches like Serpico's body language watching Guts fight towards the beginning. The problem remains (and I figure will remain for the duration of the show) that you can pick out a positive here or there but there's never any bit where you can point to everything coming together.
 
The entire rise of the band of hawk was possible only by Gryffith-chan never having to face an opponent with half a brain. Miura a hack.

Zodd was a pretty formidable enemy. And General Julius' assassination plot was reasonably clever. In both cases, it's only the Egg of the King that saved Griffith's life.
 

Phatmac

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A solid season finally gets its true AOTS. Loved Aria as a relaxing adventure with the sea and this looks like it'll continue with it. I missed the silly Aria faces so much.
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Ascheroth

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Alderamin on the Sky #1

Yay, finally another anime of this season that didn't suck.
I may be a bit biased since I've read the manga a while ago, but this was pretty good. I like the artstyle and the soundtrack and Ikta is a really fun protagonist.
 

Exalted

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Alderamin on the Sky episode 1

Don't know yet how i fell about this, wasn't bad, in fact it was better than most stuff i watched this season, but the first episode didn't really having anything that would really grab me, was a more slow episode with mostly dedicated to introducing all the characters. The MC is as interesting as he can be insufferable at times, he is lazy, lecherous, rude but a genius at the same time, who will supposedly become one of the greatest commanders. Will give it 1-2 more episodes to see where the story goes.

 

Wanderer5

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Berserk #2

Well that felt better, even if the CGI is still rough at times, but well probably no need to keep bringing that up much for now. Also Farnese and her nipple-less boobs?:p
 
Diamond is Unbreakable 15


New OP owns. Hand motif is awesome. I cannot overstate how awesome this episode was in every way. This may be no hyperbole the best shonen adaptation ever - easily up there with Yu Yu Hakusho. Just utterly fantastic in every way. For a two parter about a manga artist to be so visually interesting is just *italian chef kissing his fingers*

Berserk 02

I fucking despise this show, even though this episode was better then the first. There are moments that could be cool, would be cool if the show didn't look so terrible. But everything looks like a PS2 cutscene aside from ultra close up shots and it just ruins it. This has half of JoJo's pie - cool shots, cool camerawork and some cool direction but an utter failure on the visuals. The conversation between Farnese and Guts just looks so...abysmal. In consideration of your injuries? What injuries you didn't draw any in this scene aside from the bandage. Farnese and Serpico are in such gaudy colors, good Lord. The art style really fails those outfits.

Why is Guts inexplicably terribly injured upon meeting the knights? Oh its because we skipped Lost Children where he got wrecked. Nice one. Again, these Golden Age flashbacks do nothing for the Berserk fans or newcomers because they suck. Yeah we know about this. Newcomers don't because you can't get all the details about their relationship down via shoddy flashbacks. Also still using "hawk" and not "falcon" zzzzzzzzz

Soundtrack was gud tho

IGN reviewing anime was a mistake.

http://www.ign.com/tv/reviews

funny because love lives first ep was magnitudes better then berserks
 

Narag

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91 Days 1

Hmm, this could be the kind of thing we thought what we were going to get with Joker Game. Strong first ep with mafia film influence that never gets too far out there. If it keeps this tone, should be good but there's always that ever present danger of anime going too anime later on.
 
91 Days 1

A promising start. I feel like the second half of the episode wasn't quite as engaging as the first tho. Mainly because who exactly these characters are in relation to each other is a bit vague. Still, looking forward to more.
 

Eumi

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And yet more rivals are introduced. I can't help but wonder if they're gonna blast through them in this election thing since my god they must be approaching double digits now.
 

Mandelbo

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Berserk (1997) 01

The opening theme is fucking appalling. I signed up for Susumu Hirasawa but the OP is trashy engrish rock. Where does Forces actually get played?

Aside from that it was pretty good. I've been meaning to watch Berserk for a while and what better time than now when the new version is airing?
 
Berserk (1997) 01

The opening theme is fucking appalling. I signed up for Susumu Hirasawa but the OP is trashy engrish rock. Where does Forces actually get played?

Aside from that it was pretty good. I've been meaning to watch Berserk for a while and what better time than now when the new version is airing?

Come on, the OP/ED songs are pretty appropriate for the mood of the series and work well with their visuals. All of the music for the episodes proper was composed by Hirasawa. Forces shows up there as well as in the next episode previews.
 

Mandelbo

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Come on, the OP/ED songs are pretty appropriate for the mood of the series and work well with their visuals. All of the music for the episodes proper was composed by Hirasawa. Forces shows up there as well as in the next episode previews.

I'd probably like it more if it didn't have nonsense english lyrics. The ED was better, though, and the rest of the music is fantastic so far.
 

Eumi

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Swanky ass new OP, although at the end
is that post Cinderella Kira
?

It's a shame that they're sticking with the same ED for now though. It's great but I was still really hoping for some
Queen
.

Episode was superb though. Not much else to say on it other than they continue to do the good work.

Alright, now let's go fucking hunting.
 

Mailbox

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Momokuri episode 3/4

This might be my guilty pleasure for the season. Its not doing anything amazing or anything, but I'm liking the characters well enough. Its an enjoyable watch.
 
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